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'It didn't use to bug you'

DEFINITION: n. A personality quirk or habit, which at first blush seems "cute", but which can quickly become so annoying that it undermines personal relationships. v. To be habitually irksome.

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Conpeeve

Mrgoodtimes

Created by: Mrgoodtimes

Pronunciation: Con-Pee-Ve

Sentence: His combination of snoring and sleepwalking quickly went from cute to conpeeving after the fourth night of watching him snore walk his way into the wall.

Etymology: Con - Peeve (what used to be a propreeve is now a con)

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Cutetopuke

Created by: paintergrl1313

Pronunciation:

Sentence: I thought his messy side was cute, not anymore, it's cutetopuke.

Etymology: It was cute, now she wants to puke.

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Divugnance

Created by: Mobelia

Pronunciation:

Sentence: His once endearing habit of winking at her was quickly becoming a divugnance.

Etymology: from diversion as in quirk, abboration or abnomality and repugnance as in distaste, repulsion and resentment.

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Vexappeal

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: vex ap peel

Sentence: Rodney's bad habits were finally starting to grate on Stephanie. His sex appeal had long since become a vexappeal for her. She should have known when he told her that his family motto was, "You can pick your nose, but n ot your relatives..."

Etymology: Vex (irk, annoy) & Appeal (attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates) Wordplay on Sex appeal (attractiveness to the opposite sex)

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Procrasstination

Created by: Javeson1

Pronunciation: Pro-crass-tin-ay-shun

Sentence: Sometimes procrastination occurs in older relationships when the initial "cute" factor wears off.

Etymology: Crass (gross) + Procrastination (Put off till later... as in later in the relationship)

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Sexappall

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: seks-uh-pall

Sentence: Over time, Sue realized that Bob had developed sexappall; not only did he pass gas in public, he loudly rated his emissions on a scale of 1 to 10.

Etymology: sex appeal, appall

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COMMENTS:

maybe that explains the wilted flowers - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-15: 13:22:00

Very likely. Who would want a fartner with such a terrible characteristink? - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-15: 14:43:00

You'd better be careful purple - this infiltration of verbospeak may require a verbotomy lobotomy - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-15: 15:40:00

Lingosuction? OHNOOOOOOOOOO!!! - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-15: 17:27:00

this is getting wordiculous...absword even - rikboyee, 2007-02-15: 19:31:00

(Methinks rikboyee needs lingosuction more than I.) - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-15: 19:42:00

very funny! - wordmeister, 2007-02-15: 21:11:00

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Quirkedout

Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: qwerked-out

Sentence: Julie was quirkedout by Dan's annoying habbit of clicking his teeth.

Etymology: quirk + past tense + out

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Proclirritation

Created by: ahwinters

Pronunciation: pro-clear-rit-ta-shun

Sentence: His proclirritation to fart without excusing himself used to be cute to her, but now it was just an annoyance.

Etymology: proclivity + irritation

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Pignobility

Created by: quippingqueen

Pronunciation: pig/no/bil/it/ee

Sentence: His pattern of pignobility left her with a fetid feeling that their relationship would not survive a week.

Etymology: pig (metaphor for dirty) + ignobility (offensive behavior)

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Idiotsyncrasy

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: id eeeot sin kras ee

Sentence: she was amazed at how quickly his idiosyncrasies became idiotsyncrasies in the morning light,

Etymology: idiot + syncrasy

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Comments:

wordmeister - 2007-02-15: 23:50:00
It was tricky to come up with right word for this one...

ErWenn - 2007-02-16: 10:44:00
Lots of good words for annoying habits today. It seems to be much harder to come up with a good word for an annoying habit that starts out as endearing.